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Day technique of Faro & Renishaw in Barcelona

30/05/2005

May 30, 2005

After having already made two technical seminars in March in Madrid and Bilbao lighthouse and Renishaw enterprises performed jointly on 15 April 2005 a presentation of their products in Barcelona. Around 20 companies including Seat, Snop, Braun and Serra welding participated only in Barcelona. In the three presentations was attended by a total of 44 companies from the sectors of automobile, aircraft, metal and plastic.

Faro, specializes in portable 3D measurement systems presented its range of products which includes the arms Titanium and Platinum, the Faro Gage, the Faro Laser Scanner and the Faro Laser Tracker X attendees.

The measurement of Faro arms can be used to make highly accurate measurements (from ±.005mm) and have a spherical range of 1.2 to 3.7 meters. The operation of the Faro arm is a metaphor of the human body. The mobility of the Faro arm is made possible thanks to 6 or 7 axes (depending on model) that allow a rotation without limits. At the end of the arm is the transducer, which is comparable to the index finger. To measure any point is enough to place the transducer over the area to be measured. A high-precision angular encoder can determine at any time space XYZ position transducer.

The Faro Gage is situated in the segment of 3D measuring machines by coordinates and manual measurement tools. Lighthouse offers two models: the Faro Gage with a precision of measurement based on ±.0, 01 mm and the Faro Gage Plus with an accuracy of measurement based on ±0, 005 mm.While the Gage is designed for applications with highest measurement tolerance, the Faro Gage Plus meets the requirements of greater precision.

The Faro Laser Scanner, now called the Faro Laser Line Probe, is the first instrument with/non-contact measurement of the industry with a scanner with fully integrated laser camera and 7 degrees of freedom. Unlike other scanning systems, data can be registered both touch and non-contact in a single cycle of working without changing anything in the hardware or software. The second generation of the scanner that comes out now has a frequency of measurement of 30 bands per second and 640 points by band which corresponds to approximately 19,200 points per second. The precision is of 2ó: 50_.

The Faro Laser Tracker X is a system of portable 3D measurement using laser technology for effective and accurate measurement of high-volume components, tools and machine tools. In addition to an accuracy of ±.025mm and a 70 m measuring range, the system has a laser which does not need heating time and automatically calibrates with the Self Comp in only 5 minutes. It has other unique features like intelligent warming "Smart Warm-up" and the thermal compensation active "Active thermal Compensation", which ensure a high and stable precision in challenging environments of measurement.